[CF-metadata] regions

From: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 14:44:57 +0100

Dear Bryan

I agree with you that a good solution would be if GCMD would subclass their
list, so we could watch the relevant subclass. I look forward to your
suggestion on how we should negotiate with them about that.

> (Why dont you want country as a geographical region ... for example: it's a
> perfectly valid thing to want to integrate the pollution arriving into and
> leaving a country?)

If people want countries, I wouldn't object. We left them out initially for
simplicity. Countries are less constant than geographical regions, in both
names and boundaries, and some (e.g. USA) are discontinuous.

Best wishes

Jonathan
Received on Thu Apr 01 2004 - 06:44:57 BST